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One of the interesting problems is variations in the names by choice or error.
Several examples that I have found :
ZELLEY - Zelly, Zealy, Zealey, Sealy
Sealey, Selly and Selley and more
VALENCE - Vallens, Valance and Vallence
MABBE + Mabb
FLISHER - Flesher & Fisher
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Persons answering the poll are welcome to provide a few examples such as Randall, Randell, Rendle
or Godbold, Godbolt or even Wood and Woods,
Kyne or Kine etc.
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I have sollars to sollards, baldwin to baldwing, clark to clarke but the worst is Serjent to sargent to sarjent to seargent !!!
Kev.
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I have Jones to Jones to Jones to Jones.................... ;D ;D ;D
Jan
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I have Jones to Jones to Jones to Jones.................... ;D ;D ;D
Jan
What about SMITH or LEE :o
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Joking aside now!!!!......
I have Beaton/Beeton/Beetton/Betton
Challinor/Challenor/Challiner
Trow/Trowe
Simon/Simons
Jan
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I have found Laing/Lang/ Lange/Layng, not counting Sang
and as for the Robbs and Dunns - well !!!!!!
Ysabeau
PS And what about Christian names
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Until I started thinking about this, I didn't realize just how many variations there were! These are all names of my children's ancestors and all variants come from official records - either church registers or statutory records.
Lochtie, Lochty, Loughty
Philp, Philip, Philips, Phillip, Phillips
Trippet, Trippett, Trippit, Trippitt
Pearcy, Peircy, Peircey, Piercy, Piercey, Percey, Percy
Bourke, Burke, Burk
Stanton, Staunton
Brownell, Brownill, Brownhill
Cuming, Cumming, Cumin, Cumyn
Dooley, Duly
Kinsella, Kinchella, Kinchilla, Kinnale, Kinsals
Siddle, Siddal, Siddall, Sydall
And the one which takes absolute pride of place:
McLause, McLaws, McIlhose, McLehose - a total of some 80 variant spellings! If you can think of a way to spell it, it has been used!
JAP
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Wow! Excellent contribution. May you manage you rake up all the scattered leaves of your family trees regardless of
the many shades? :D
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Lloydy
I have Jones to Jones to Jones to Jones.................... ;D ;D ;D
Jan
Unlike Smith, are there any variants for the surname Jones ?
Ysabeau
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Lloydy
I have Jones to Jones to Jones to Jones.................... ;D ;D ;D
Jan
Unlike Smith, are there any variants for the surname Jones ?
Ysabeau
Try, Janes, Jeans, Johns and Jonas for Jones.
and a real stretch is JAMES.
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I have
Shepherd, Sheppherd, Sheperd, Shepperd, Shephard, Shepard, Shepphard, Shepheard.
Maddock, Madock Maddox, Maddix and believe it or not, in one instance, Macdick!
Strickland, Stricklin
Read, Reade, Reed, Reede
Crowter, Crouter, Clouter, Clowter
Darcy
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What have we started? Even SMITH has variations such as SMYTHE. But we all have a few SMITH names in our various trees.
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Up to now I have no Smiths or Jones!
However, I do have
Fagan, Fegan, Fagin, Feagin, Feagan, Hagan, Sagan
Daly, Daley
Dickens, Dickins
Speakman, Spearman
Holliday, Holiday, Halliday, Haliday
Fildes, Files
Just a thought, on a database, how is it best to record these names - any thoughts?
I have recorded them as their BIRTH was registered - does anyone have any views on this?
Claudia
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Lloydy
I have Jones to Jones to Jones to Jones.................... ;D ;D ;D
Jan
Unlike Smith, are there any variants for the surname Jones ?
Ysabeau
Try, Janes, Jeans, Johns and Jonas for Jones.
and a real stretch is JAMES.
I stand corrected
Ysabeau
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Up to now I have no Smiths or Jones!
Claudia
No SMITH or JONES, well I'll be darned.
Concerning the recording of names, you should go by the actual birth record not a transcribed record that could be wrong.
But, if a name has variations, I would also disclose them.
For instance some branches of my Zealy/Zelley Dorset bunch changed the name to SEALEY in the early to mid-1840's. One hundred and forty years later, some descendants of that branch
weren't aware of the Zelley connection. How sad, they had
distant cousins in the Weymouth region, but weren't aware of the connections until 1990. So full disclosure will help somebody 100 plus years from now when we are long gone.
All we can do is try to be a storyteller with an open book
and the best disclosure that time will allow!
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So far I have:
Collier, Collyer
Welch, Welsh
Davies, Davis
but my favourite is my mum's line - Dinmore, Dinsmore, Dunmore, Dunsmore, Denmore and Diamond.
Think how boring our research would be though if everyone wrote/transcribed the names the same way every time!!
Sandie
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Think how boring our research would be though if everyone wrote/transcribed the names the same way every time!!
Sandie
Excellent point!!
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I have Jeves,jeeves,jeaves,geves,geaves and have found relatives where the misspelling has stuck Jeves is the version i am looking for but many other names in my tree have variations or misspelling part of the fun of genealogy
Jim
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My nightmare name is SOUTHERN, so far:
Southern, Southen, Souther, Southan, Southam, Souton, Sowten, Sowtan
I dare say there are more to find yet ;D
Steph.
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So far only with my Newells, who are also Newel or Newall or Newhall.
But Great Grandad Johnson pulled a fast one on his wedding certificate, Calling himself and his father - Johnston, but then they lied about brides age, her father's name and occupation too. An elopment so the family think.
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What about Randall, Randell & Rendle
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Hi All,
I Have; For the name Hyatt,
Hyaitte, Hyett,Hyette,Hiatt,Hiett, Hiaght, Height, Hyit,Heyitt,Hiyite, Myatt, Wyatt, even Byatt! Then go 'searching' and all we get is HOTELS Worldwide! Adds hours on to the research!
Sue
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Sue, you can cut out words in most search engines by inserting a 'minus' for example
Hyatt -hotel
Or look for an Advanced Search as it usually gives you an option to specify words you don't want.
Might narrow if down a little :D
Hope this helps - always frightened I may be sucking eggs with this kind of thing ;D
Steph.
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Hi Steph,
Thanks for the advice, I'll try it that way in future.
Sue
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First hit was: Henry Edkins - Mary HYATT (Feb. 17, 1757)
Others: Benjamin Garner Hyatt, veteran WW II, then the name Julia HYATT (1855 - 1918) popped-up.
Be creative, try a real name & date
e.g. James Hyatt, 1850 and what do you get
- James Franklin Hyatt, born 1874
in Franklin, Arkansas
Then I tried Zelley, Hyatt
and received a grab bag of interesting results
Using WYATT, I go a lot on Stanley Zelley WYATT, but on a Wraxall, Somerset site there was a 1816 marriage of one George Wyatt to Harriet DOGGETT.
And for those that care about the DOGGETT name, also in 1816
Sophia DOGGETT married one Mark MAY
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Hi Zelley,
Thanks for your look ups. As it happens I do have a lot of the Hyatt's going back to c1795. I'm always looking for more tho'
They are all from the Middlesex London area, with some going to the USA/Aus/Tasmania.
This has been a 40yr project for me and thanks to this site I've traced more in the last few months than I could have ever have imagined.
That is on all my name searches. It's agreat place to be.
Thanks again,
Sue
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Sue
Re your Wyatt variations from Hyatt, were you able to trace any to London
or Dorset, England.
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Except for the odd Gidney name in Devon, I'm not chasing the detailed history of this name, but a likely variation is GIDNEY and GADNEY.
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[quote author=Zelley Hi Zelly,
I'm afraid I haven't traced any to Dorset. The variations are mostly transcriber errors.
Sue
link=topic=65636.msg278099#msg2780date=1119501298]
Sue
Re your Wyatt variations from Hyatt, were you able to trace any to London
or Dorset, England.
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Hi all
To add to the Zealy variations - most of my line were down as Sealy or Sealey, although the early ones in Wiltshire were Zealy. Since they were all illiterate, it was up to the priest or registrar to spell it. One vicar tended to use Seely or Seeley. Because the family straddled 2 registration districts it was noticable that the Pewsey registrar always spelled it Sealey whereas the Devizes chap used Sealy for the same person.
Zelley - on this name, have you found any ancestors who wandered over the Dorset into Wiltshire?
Angela
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Hi all
To add to the Zealy variations - most of my line were down as Sealy or Sealey, although the early ones in Wiltshire were Zealy. Since they were all illiterate, it was up to the priest or registrar to spell it. One vicar tended to use Seely or Seeley. Because the family straddled 2 registration districts it was noticable that the Pewsey registrar always spelled it Sealey whereas the Devizes chap used Sealy for the same person.
Zelley - on this name, have you found any ancestors who wandered over the Dorset into Wiltshire?
Angela
I'm not sure but I believe the first ones in Dorset appeared in the Broadwinsor/ "Little Winsar" area near the Devon & Somerset border area. I thing some of the Dorset and Wiltshire ones also had the Zellye or Sellye variation. Also, some of the Devon & Dorset ones
had the Selly & Selley variation.
Also, at least one of the Wiltshire ones and family travelled to Gloucestershire that led to the USA branch that began
in New Jersey (Burlington area near the Pennsylvania border.
Not sure if all of these are connected to one with the ZELY name
in Worcestershire in the 1300's.
The ZEELEY variation doesn't sound like an English variation.
Likely a Dutch version of the name.
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Hi,
Interesting topic.
I have
Peirce,Pierce, Pierse,Perce,Pearce,Pearse,Pevice,Perice,Price and Reace.
I am still trying to trace some Peirce's!! on various census years
but with such variations I find that it is looking for a needle in a haystack.
Regards
Geoff
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In my own tree, the worst example is Hesilrig, Hesilrigg, Hesilrigge to Hazelrigg and probably other variants as yet unfound.
Locally, the name Sangster used to be spelled Sanxter and the early 17th Century vicar Roger Peachey's 16 children includes people who now go by the names of Petch, Petchey, Peach and one or two who are still caled Peachey. In the 16th and 17th centuries, there was a family Skot, who presumably became Scotts over time. Wonder if there was a link to north of the border?
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Sue, you can cut out words in most search engines by inserting a 'minus' for example
Hyatt -hotel
Or look for an Advanced Search as it usually gives you an option to specify words you don't want.
Might narrow if down a little :D
Hope this helps - always frightened I may be sucking eggs with this kind of thing ;D
Steph.
Any Idea how to search for the Surname "Still" without getting all the still as in remaining the same ???
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I get the same type of problem when searching for 'Stables' get all sorts of riding stables.
As for name variations I have found Stables as Stubbs and Stabbs so far.
Jean
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For Easton I have Easdon, Eisdon, Ersdon, Esdon and one I think may be connected, Airston.
For McCouat I have McCout, McCouit, McQuait, McCowat, McOuat and Macouil.
So far I have had no Smiths or Jones either.
Nina
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Got my first Smith today :-\ marrying a Still in 1756, but it was by finding a tree chart from an anonymous donor to my local FHS, which got my Still line at 1760 back to circa 1600, so that was all right ;D
wish I knew who had handed it in to thank them though.
Grothenwell
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Not exactly in my tree but the witnesses to my g,g,grandparent's marriage in 1847 are recorded on the certificate as 'Emanuel Okle and Margaret Okle'. Both had "made their mark". Further research has shown that their surname was 'Oakhill'.
I suppose it works when spoken with a Gloucestershire accent!
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Sue, you can cut out words in most search engines by inserting a 'minus' for example
Steph.
Any Idea how to search for the Surname "Still" without getting all the still as in remaining the same ???
Try John Still - e.g. the name James Christopher John Still appears
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Thanks anyway Zelley,
But without middle names (or even with I suppose); "Alexander Still" stillcomes up with "Alexander still wanted to do family research" etc >:(
Still trying though ;),
Grothenwell
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:D :D :D
For MCNULTY - I've had McNalty, MacAnulty MacAnalty
For DUNN - I've had Dunne, Donne, Done
For MORRIS - I've had Moriss, Morriss, Maurice
For SWARBRICK - I've had Swabrick, Sawbrick, Sawbreck
For LYON - I've had Lyons, Lions
For THEODOSIA - I've had Theodora, Thedera, Teresa
For JOSHIAH - I've had Joshua, Josiah, Joseph, Jesse
and and and...... ??? ??? ???
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Sue, you can cut out words in most search engines by inserting a 'minus'<snip>
PassionPlay, Try filtering my maternal Gma's maiden surname in this computer age - yes, it is HACKING!
JAP
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I have two cousins called Willshaw - on one birth cert it's Wilshaw and and on her sisters it's Willshaw - the family still can't decide which is the correct way of spelling it. I've researched my family back to 1760 and none of my ancestors could decide either!
I also have Moffatt/Mofatt/mofat/ Moffitt/ moffet and it just goes on and on and on. I was in contact with one lady and her Moffatt name had been changed to Muffin over the years. I'm going to go back to researching this line when I'm more mentally stable.
??? Fiona
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I only have a few(so far!)
Bevan / Beavan / Bevin
Rockett / Rocket
Cox / Coxe
Cummings / Cummins
The only hiccup was one born a Beavan, had a childhood as Watkins and went to Bevan when he married! Took a while to sort that one out ;D
Tabitha
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I only have a few(so far!)
Bevan / Beavan / Bevin
Rockett / Rocket
Cox / Coxe
Cummings / Cummins
The only hiccup was one born a Beavan, had a childhood as Watkins and went to Bevan when he married! Took a while to sort that one out ;D
Tabitha
Thanks for sharing, please update this thread with more name variations.
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We have had fun with hubbys side of the tree...
Each generation seemed to spell the name differently
Fooks Fookes Folks Folkes Foulkes and maybe even Fox but Ive still to prove that connection.
Tazzie
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After reading through the names above I won't be moaning about my NAILARD, NAILOR, NAYLOR'S ever again, what a nightmare journey some of you have had - now if I could just persuade my lot to stick with one surname and not keep changing back and forth I'd be a happy bunny!
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Suey and others - I guess we are stuck with what we get,
but what about all those folks that came from mainland Europe to settle in England, Canada or USA, but changed or had their names changed to such basic names as Lewis, Phillips, or even Smith and Jones. Now that is a problem for some.
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Davidson-Davison........scotland
............chrissy.
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Just looking at this one now...
Beaver/Beever/Beavers/Beevers all the same family over 4 census
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Banister, Bannister, Bannester
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Somebody on a Somerset list sent a link to old archives.
While fishing for names, I came across ZELY and MARTYN
in the year 1392 in Bristol. It appears one Richard Zely
and John Martyn were two of the witnesses to some event that was to be dealt with after the "Feast of Epithany" in
January 1391.
Now, I never checked out the archives to get the details
of the event or the results. All I know is some of the other
folks mentioned had names like SPELLY and ADAM.
For this thread the important name variation issues would be
ZELY - Zelly, Zelley & Zellye
MARTYN - Martin etc.
Maybe on a Somerset thread, somebody could sort out
what the 1391 issue concerning St. Thomas the Martyr, Church of England at Bristol was all about.
And on the Lighter Side thread, maybe somebody
could check out the subsequent years when the
likes of Francis Drake, Hawkins, Lovell and other sea dogs
were knocking back a few suds in Bristol
before setting sail from places such as Plymouth
to challenge the might of the Spanish Armada. ;D
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I have:
Thomason/Thomasson
Hodskinson/Hodkinson/Hodgkinson/Hodckinson/Hodgkins/Hogskinson
Nield/Nields
Blythen/Blything/Blyther
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Good to see someone researching the BAKER name, no
significant variations noted, but maybe some have
BACKER, or BAKERS.
But my Richard Baker's spouse has three variations:
Valence, Vellens and Vallance.
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I've got Therren, Ternan, Tearney & Tierney - all the same family!
Toni
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I have:
Rees and Reese
Tweddell and Tweddle (which reminds me I must post about my mystery Tweddell sometime)
Lumsden and Lumsdon
but my Browns are all Browns and my Joneses are all Joneses (except those that were smiths! - blacksmiths!)
RuthieB
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I have:
Rees and Reese
Tweddell and Tweddle (which reminds me I must post about my mystery Tweddell sometime)
Lumsden and Lumsdon
but my Browns are all Browns and my Joneses are all Joneses (except those that were smiths! - blacksmiths!)
RuthieB
RuthieB
What about the Browne variation, and were any of your Smiths
"whitesmiths".
Did any of your Tweddles stray into the Twidale trees? ???
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Just looking at this one now...
Beaver/Beever/Beavers/Beevers all the same family over 4 census
What about Beevor, and did any of the Beevor folks join
forces with the Pots to become a hyphenated tree
Beevor-Pots? 8)
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Banister, Bannister, Bannester
Any connection to Roger B. the four-minute miler?
XPhile, I notice reference to Godbold in the signature.
Are you directly connected to the Godbold Families of Suffolk
or did yours hang their hats in Essex or London Town.
Did any have the usual spelling errors such as Goldbold
or Gobald. And did you know the Godbold name can be
found in the "Domesday Book" of the 1080's, thanks
to old King William aka Duke of Normandy.
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Hi,
Interesting topic.
I have
Peirce,Pierce, Pierse,Perce,Pearce,Pearse,Pevice,Perice,Price and Reace.
I am still trying to trace some Peirce's!! on various census years
but with such variations I find that it is looking for a needle in a haystack.
Regards
Geoff
A new addition to my long list is PENCE.
Geoff
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Banister, Bannister, Bannester
Any connection to Roger B. the four-minute miler?
XPhile, I notice reference to Godbold in the signature.
Are you directly connected to the Godbold Families of Suffolk
or did yours hang their hats in Essex or London Town.
Did any have the usual spelling errors such as Goldbold
or Gobald. And did you know the Godbold name can be
found in the "Domesday Book" of the 1080's, thanks
to old King William aka Duke of Normandy.
The only Godbold in my family tree that I know so far is Lydia Godbold, who married Robert Warner in 1776. They are my great great great great great grandparents, and came from Ashfield-Cum-Thorpe, Suffolk.
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[quote author=XPhile
The only Godbold in my family tree that I know so far is Lydia Godbold, who married Robert Warner in 1776. They are my great great great great great grandparents, and came from Ashfield-Cum-Thorpe, Suffolk.
Well, then if Lydia is your blood kin as of 1776, then you are
likely related to all the Godbold's of Suffolk, even the ones that
moved to other locations including the ones that emigrated to
the USA and settled in places like Alabama, South Carolina etc.
If you would like to join a Godbold group, PM me!
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Made a mistake - Robert Warner was born in 1776. They married in 1801.
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Made a mistake - Robert Warner was born in 1776. They married in 1801.
Rose Edith GODBOLD married Joseph SMITH
Rose was the youngest daughter of Charles Godbold & Jane Stannard.
She was born in Peasenhall, Suffolk, and married Joseph in London around 1905.
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Thanks anyway Zelley,
But without middle names (or even with I suppose); "Alexander Still" stillcomes up with "Alexander still wanted to do family research" etc >:(
Still trying though ;),
Grothenwell
Follow-up, any further progress with the research with the STILL name.
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Hi Zelley,
Thanks for asking, but nothing as yet.
Due to work commitments I haven't had much time to do much research on any of my family tree.
Best wishes,
Grothenwell
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I have:
McCluskey to McClusky to McClaskey
Hayes to Hays
Schmieg to Schmeig to Shmig to Shmiech
Kochersberger to Kochersperger to Guggisberg (and every combination in the middle)
Heintz to Heinz
Those are the most obvious and problematic for me.
Kath
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With one family surname Cock, one of the priests or parish clerks wrote Cock, the other Cook.
Half the children were born to one name, half to the other.
It was only the unusual middle name that convinced me it was happening.
The family changed the name later to Cocks, so that can become Cox.
Bob
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Sandie,
Do you have a John Commerell Colyer in your tree?
He was born 1 May 1851 in Portsmouth, Hampshire but was later a police constable in London. He and his wife & children are in St. George Hanover Square, London, in the 1901 census.
He married Sarah Fanny Jones in 1879 in Old Brompton, Kent.
Children:
John William Richard Colyer, born 29 November 1879 in Gillingham, Kent
Caroline Elizabeth Ann Colyer, born 11 June 1882 in Pimlico, London
Florence Mabel Colyer, born 1 December 1884 in Pimlico, London
Bertha May Colyer, born 1893 in Pimlico, London
Regards,
Josephine
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I've got:
Duplessis, Duplesse, Duplisse, Duplisea, Duplissea, Deuplissia, Deuplisea, Deuplissea, etc. (Canada & the U.S.)
Reilly, Reiley, Riley, Rielly, Rielley, etc. (Canada & the U.S.)
McGlinchey, McGlinchy, and it's been transcribed incorrectly as M. Linchy (Canada)
Beaumon to Beaumont (Kent, England)
Ueltschi to Hilchie, Hilchey and Hilchy (Nova Scotia, Canada, originally from Switzerland)
Gillmor, Gillmore, Gilmore (Canada)
Capocefalo misspelled a million ways from Sunday (from Italy to New York to Connecticut)
Regards,
Josephine
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I have traced my ancestry back to Alexander STILL born around 1742 in Aberdeen, Scotland. He married Jean ANDERSON b-c1742.
Their son, William Alexander STILL b-1769, married Frances Jane SINCLAIRE. Their son, John STILL b-1788, married Margaret YOUNG. These were my Great-Great Grandparents who, along with their parents sailed to America in 1836 and later settled in Ontario, Canada.
I would love to have more information about the Alexander STILL(s) you have mentioned. Perhaps they are connected to my ancestors.
Regards
Gary Still
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Thanks for the Hyett variations! I have lost a Samuel Hyatt alias Clulo, last seen in 1869 being sentenced to 3 months in prison for stealing a tablecloth :-[
My Clulos have appeared as:- Chels, Chila, Child, Chilo, Chulo, Chuls, Clabo, Clara, Clewlough, Clewlow, Club, Clubs, Cluce, Cluco, Clueloe, Cluio, Clule, Clulo :), Cluloe, Clulow, Clulowe, Cluls, Clute, Cluto, and Cluts. ::) I think that is 24!
And I thought unusual name Clulo was going to be easy!
Kooky
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i have variations of holben holburn holbert holbourn holborne holbourne or holborn / willson wilson/ brigham brigum all makes for interesting reading if frustrating at times
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ps i forgot McClarren mclarren mclarron mclaren maclaren & my name of jane /jayne anne /ann i have been given them all in one spelling or another
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Auber, Obey.
They even used both variations when signing marriage certs and such.
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Strangely, the uncommon name Luffman which is the major focus of my research has 13 variants of name. 8 of which seem to be variants, the other 5 either spelling mistakes or what the vicar thought he heard at the ceremony.
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A lot of name variations were human error. The old case of spell it as you hear it so if someone with the surname Blackwell was asked "What is your surname good man?" and the person replied in a local dialect "Blackall" then the perosn asking the question may have wrote it down as Blackall instead of Blackwell if he was a census enumerator or registrar.
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This apparently happened frequently with the surname Cornwell on my mother's side, which was often recorded as Cornell or even as Cromwell.
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I have Cornwell on my mothers side.
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And so do I in the same region, please see pm I sent a little earlier.
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My maiden name was Roobottom but no-one ever got it right. I suffered from being called Robottom, Rowbottom, Rockbottom, Rosebottom, Rothbottom, Robotham, Ruebottom, etc., etc. My hubby says I only married him to get a "simple" name.
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i have flaxons/flexons/fleckey/flacen and a few more spellings
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I have in my tree the following:
Sell (the right name) shown as Loll, Lell, Sall, Sale & many other variations
Fleming as Heming
Vince as Viacge, but also Vance, Vines
Many variations in spelling are not done by the family but the emunerator taking down their details.
But as an aside my mothers maiden name was Earl & she would often add an E on the end as she thought it looked Posher!!!
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Over 100 Luffman entries shown as Suffman in 1911 census. Reason I believe the transcriber unaware of the fact that a capital copper-plate L looked very similar to a capital copperplate S. Moral if you can't find an entry in the 1911 under L where it should be well worth trying under S
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Even names such as Roberts can be mistransribed as Roterbs, Robarts, Robert and Robberts.
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In the 1911 census there is an incidence of the surname Luffman being transcribed as SUFFOMA which is completely unknown. Suggestion to future census transcribers use the ONS website to see whether your creations do in fact exist before publishing them.
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No apologies for resurrecting this topic-I have a 'Hodgkinson' who is also a 'Hoskin'. :) Of particular interest to 'chesters' on this topic, I see-have sent personal message.
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If all else fails, try adding "Mc" in front. I spent two years trying to locate my grandmother's birth certfificate with no luck. Name was Ravey. Only when I found a death certificate for another rellie did I notice her mother (the informant) had signed her name McRavey. I then tried looking for McRavey for grannie and her birth certificate popped right up. She did, however, drop the "Mc" when she married and its been Ravey ever since.
All this reminds me of a joke I heard years ago about a lady named Ada Sheepshead. She hated her name and wanted to get married so she could change it. Finally fell for a good looking chap and dated him many times till he proposed. On the eve of her wedding she realized she'd never asked his last name. Guess what? It was Ramsbottom!!
Tricia
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My Sedgwicks are also Sedgewick, Sidgwick, Shedwick, Sedric and so on. For some time I have been unable to progress with any of these variations. And then for some reason I tried searching on any possible spellings I could think of. Wow, what a hit I have had with Siggiswick and Siggeswick - going right back to the 1400s. Now got so much info, it'll take me weeks to unravel it. Am feeling most pleased.
Greensleeves
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I have:
Price / Pryce / Pureyor
Titchiner / Titchenor
Cawana Vira which is actally Edwina Vera
Parry / Parrey / Parvey / Porrey
Potesta / Podesta / Patesta
:P
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I have found 13 variations of the surname, Luffman, at least 9 of which are simple spelling errors from the 19th century onwards. Variations before this time do not really count as there was no standard spelling.
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I have a few, the main interesting one for me is
Muncey. In the past I have found Monsy / munsey/ Mouncey / Muncie / and even Money
Cleary . Found Clary / Clarry / Clarey / Clare
Moore . Found Moor / More
Parcell . Found Purcell / Parcel / Pursell / Purcill
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The most interesting Luffman variation from the mid 17th century in London was spelt: Leoughfman, but earlier than standardised spelling I don't think these really count.
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I have found Hankinson, Handkinson, Hawkinson, Harkinson, Jankinson
Thistlethwaite, Thistlethaite, Thistlewait (so far but not gone too far yet!) ;
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Mears is really giving me problems at the minute.
I have Mears, Meres, Mear, Mere, Meer, Meeres
RM :-\
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Mears is really giving me problems at the minute.
I have Mears, Meres, Mear, Mere, Meer, Meeres
RM :-\
Don't forget to search for Mairs as well :)
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Mears is really giving me problems at the minute.
I have Mears, Meres, Mear, Mere, Meer, Meeres
RM :-\
Don't forget to search for Mairs as well :)
What no Mares?
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Jory, Jorie, Jori, Joret, Jorey and Jury
Coolidge, Cooledge, Colledge and Colynge
Hambridge, Hambrdge, and Ambridge
yn9man
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Rosie, I would seriously examine the possibility of the surname being spelt Mares, remember there was no standard spelling before the late 18th century. I have the surname Ayres spelt Ares more than once, so I think Mares is quite lkikely.
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I Have
Blue / Blew
Moxon / Moxham
Schofield / Scholfield
plus a list of 104 ways to spell Montgomery but so far mine have only spelled it one way!
No Smith or Jones that I've found yet
Dawn M
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Hi,
I have,
Horn-Horne-Hearn-Hern
Petrie-Petree-Petre
Crimmins-Crimmings-Cremin-Cremean-Cremmens
Peirce-Pierce-Pearce-Pearse-Peerce
Very frustrating at times :-\
Marysma
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My record is 9 variations in just 2 generations on my maternal side:-
Gresham-Grisham-Gressam-Grissam-Grissim-Grissom-Grisame-Grassam-Grisome (plus 1 mistranscribed in will calendar as "Frissam").
Best on paternal side:-
Blakely-Blakley-Blakeley-Blackl(e)y-Bleakl(e)y
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I have a Small Berryman branch not yet attached to my tree though not finding the record.
Variations
Berryman - Berriman - Bereman - Bereiman - Beriman - Berrieman - Berreman - Beryman
One can easily think of more
On top of that maybe Perryman might be a variation
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Family surname is PEARCY, but variations on the census records:- PEACY PEACEY, PACEY, PEARCE.
Even a Death Certificate as PIERCEY!
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Family surname is PEARCY, but variations on the census records:- PEACY PEACEY, PACEY, PEARCE.
Even a Death Certificate as PIERCEY!
It's not my family surname, but a distant ancestor had several of those, as well as being married as Pearson. I put much of it down to dialect variation, as well as unfamiliarity (or deafness) by the cleric.
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For a start, will list just a few
Plume - Plane - Clune
Hazelwood - Hazlewood - Haslewood - Aizlewood
Harding - Harden
Bower - Bowel
Tozer - Yozer
Jackie
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Only just spotted this thread so these may have cropped up previously.
Greaves, Grieves, Greves,Greeves, Graves, Groves
Julnes,Julens,Julners,Jillings, Julians